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Historical Event on 8/29/1998
Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1992 | The 79,698 crore Eighth Plan launched. |
| 6/5/1995 | Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam. |
| 11/13/1953 | Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 3/26/1980 | Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police). |
| 6/13/1996 | Govt. extends for another 2 years the ban imposed on LTTE w.e.f. 14/6/1996 under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. |
| 8/19/1757 | The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company. |
| 5/18/1995 | Sukhomoy Sengupta, 76, Tripura's first CM, passed away. |
| 8/16/1974 | A.Shankar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 31st March 1977. |
| 5/7/1994 | Sunit Khatau, famous industrialist and textile magnet in Mumbai and owner of Khatau Group, was murdered. He was 55. |
| 8/15/2000 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"". |
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